India's Data and AI Initiatives for Economic and Social Value Creation

India's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been applauded across the world. The importance of gaps in data assets has been highlighted across war rooms that are fundamental for pandemic response and reopening of the economy. To instil confidence for economic and social value creation data resilience is the need of the hour. Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be the pillars of support to the government and businesses during the pandemic for virus containment. For instance, contact tracing, workforce planning and protection, resource optimization and restarting the economic engine in a systematic and secure manner.